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Russia plans to knock out U.S. with 40,000 nuclear warheads

 
Anonymous Coward
04/25/2005 11:48 PM
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Russia plans to knock out U.S. with 40,000 nuclear warheads
Even if Putinīs intentions were favorable to the United States as is now widely perceived, the Russian capability to stage a successful nuclear first strike against the United States which would destroy the bulk of our strategic nuclear deterrent and gravely weaken our capability to retaliate remains unchanged. Bush has declared his intention to rely not upon nuclear weapons to deter war and keep the nuclear peace as past US Presidents have done for nearly 60 years. Instead, Bush has stated that henceforth he will rely upon the good graces of the President of the Russian Federation to keep his promise to disarm to a similarly low level of deployed strategic nuclear weapons. Bushīs trust in Russia to keep its promises flies in the face of a study done by the first Bush Administration in 1992 that concluded that Russia has violated every arms control treaty it has ever entered into including the START I Treaty. How soon the Bush Administration has forgotten President Reaganīs time-honored slogan of "peace through strength!"

Many well-meaning Americans believe that the US can afford to rid itself of several thousand "excess" nukes since the Cold War is over and Russia is now our "ally" in the war against terrorism. How well-balanced are the US and Russian nuclear arsenals today? Former Senator Sam Nunn and former Senate Majority Leader, Howard Baker, have written several articles citing estimates that Russia possesses a nuclear arsenal totaling approximately 40,000 warheads. In contrast, the US arsenal consists of no more than 10,000 to 11,000 total warheads, down from 30,000 in 1991. Equally disturbing is that according to sworn testimony by former Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, James Schlesinger to Congress in fall 1997, Russia continues to produce "thousands" of miniaturized nuclear warheads a year despite the fact that the US closed its nuclear production plants almost a decade ago.

According to the Center for Security Policy and other think-tanks, US intelligence has never been able to ascertain the true size of the Russian strategic nuclear force and has issued estimates, which have consistently underestimated the size of the Russian nuclear force. US intelligence assumes as a matter of course that Russia will not deploy MIRVīd warheads on its strategic missiles in excess of the START nuclear arms control treaties signed by the US and Russia in the early 1990s even though it has the technical capacity to deploy many times as many warheads on its missiles as are permitted by treaty and as are counted by US intelligence which always assumes Russian treaty compliance. In view of these facts, it seems dangerously naïve to stop using the threat posed by the large Russian nuclear arsenal to determine the size of the US strategic nuclear deterrent and trust the Russians into believing that they have downloaded these additional warheads from their missiles when they have such a vast abundance of nuclear warheads in reserve
Caligula II
12/08/2005 10:07 AM
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Re: Russia plans to knock out U.S. with 40,000 nuclear warheads
with my magic wand i will transform incoming Russian warheads into butterflies across our nation.

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the Madman
12/08/2005 10:07 AM
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4O,000 nukes would put the world into nuclear winter for 20 years or more
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Anonymous Coward
12/08/2005 10:07 AM
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Nobody will touch areas with fresh water. Good drinking water sources are the areas to be fought over in the future and nobody will want to contaminate them. Read the pentagonīs global warming report. More likely theyīd use those bombs that kill the people and leave everything else intact and ready to move on in.
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12/08/2005 10:07 AM
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It doesnīt bother me as there will still be a Wal-Mart store close by.
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12/08/2005 10:07 AM
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canīt explode an a-b without proper space-time coordinates.

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Junior Debunker
12/08/2005 10:07 AM
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Itīs an old plan...i think it goes back to the 60īs.





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